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| Title: |
What does 'natural capital' do? The role of metaphor in economic understanding of the environment |
| Author: |
Åkerman, Maria |
| Appeared in: |
Environmental education research |
| Paging: | Volume 11 (2005) nr. 1 pages 37-52 |
| Year: |
2005-02 |
| Contents: |
At the time of its introduction at the end of the 1980s, the concept of natural capital represented new, more ecologically aware thinking in economics. As a symbol of novel thinking, the metaphor of natural capital stimulated a debate between different disciplinary traditions on the definitions of the concept and research priorities and methods. The concept became a means to control the discourse of sustainable development. In this paper, I focus on the power/knowledge implications of the use of the concept, and I follow the career of the concept of natural capital in ecological economic publications between the years 1988 and 2000. The main interests are: (1) in the use of the concept to affect the rules according to which claims concerning sustainable development can be made and (2) in the constitution of objects of environmental knowledge. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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